Marcin Borkowski <mb...@mbork.pl> writes:
> Hi all,
>
> it seems that links to Info manuals are broken in HTML and LaTeX export
> (and possibly in other backends, too).
>
> Would it make sense to make them work, i.e., link to the official web
> versions, at least for standard Info manuals, like Emacs manual, Elisp
> reference or Org manual?
It is not broken for my use case. I like the fact that
[[info:emacs#Top][Emacs Manual]]
is turned into
<a href="emacs.html#Top">Emacs Manual</a>
because I generated emacs.html, elisp.html, org.html, etc. all in
my ~/public_html/ or sub-directories. Hence
<a href="emacs.html#Top">Emacs Manual</a>
works fine for my use case. It is a lot faster to access GNU manuals
when they are all on local host.
Should the current behavior be the default? Perhaps not. I believe
makeinfo and/or texi2html generates html links pointing to the official
pages at gnu.org. This could be the default behavior, but I hope not
the *only* behavior. If current export code is to be changed, I would
like to see user selectable option so that I can choose to use the
current behavior.
